SC - Re: New World Foods: Rant/ Counter Rant (Long)

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LrdRas at aol.com wrote:
> 
> I would sit down and eat
> a dish of mackerel before I would eat penguin from the descriptions that
> exist of the bird. BTW, almost all shore birds taste of fishiness more than
> fowl. Some (and I won't go into details) are so bad that poorly prepared cat
> food would be a gourmet treat in comparison.

I remember seeing in a couple of sources that there are ways to remove
some or most of the fishiness you describe, either by purging the bird
in captivity for a short time, by removing some of the fat before
cooking and/or removing certain oil glands near the tail of a lot of
birds. See Schwabe's "Unmentionable Cuisine" and, I think, Simon's
"Concise Encyclopedia of Gastronomy" for details.

An' whuss wrong wi' mackerel, I'd loik to know? I'm assuming (correct me
if I'm wrong about this) that the mackerel you've been exposed to has,
um, shown in its quality the distances it has travelled?

Adamantius
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